Friday, April 04, 2014

Nap Like an Egyptian quilt

I had a chance to play with the cotton supreme solids from RJR and I was impressed. The fabric has a nice weight to it (not too thick, not too thin), it is easy to work with (very little fraying, which is super!) and the quality is fantastic (very smooth with no blemishes). I was also impressed with the colors--so vibrant and pretty!

It took me several weeks to decide what to use these pretties for! After much deliberation, I combined the solid bundle with some Anna Maria fabrics from my stash. I sewed them up using Cheryl's pattern Nap Like an Egyptian from Sunday Morning Quilts.

I usually don't work with this many saturated colors at once, (or triangles, for that matter!) but it was a nice change of pace. You may have noticed that some orange fabric worked it's way into the mix. After several blocks things were looking kind of....predictable. The orange "stirs the pot" just a bit, but in a good way!

I quilted it with straight lines to echo the large triangles. I washed and dried it and it puckered up in an unattractive manner. So, I went back and quilted around each small center triangle, then buried about a million thread ends. The additional quilting seemed to help tame the puckering. I could probably add even more quilting, but I think I'm done! After making 200+ quilts I learn a lesson every time. (Unfortunately, some of those lessons have to be learned more than once. Doh!)

If you would like to win this bundle, please leave me a comment in this post. You can tell me what your favorite day of the week is, your favorite color, your favorite snack, your favorite beverage, your favorite fabric line, your favorite WIP....anything along those lines....just don't say "pick me", please! Thanks a bunch. :)

Now, if you would like to link up your finishes, it's time! Thanks for joining me for finish it up Friday!

I love your quilt. I have been thinking of making a similar pattern but have not started collecting fabrics yet. I am working UFO's trying not to buy fabric. My favorite day of the week is Friday. I love looking back at what I have been able to accomplish and then blog hop to see what others of have done. Quilt on!

I was quite amused by your post since I was just looking at Cheryl's version of this quilt in the Sunday Mornings book! I am a librarian so I ordered it for our collection at work. It circulates well :).

My favorite moment of the week is Friday afternoon at 5:05 when I am driving home from work for the weekend. It is a moment of pure heaven in anticipation of the weekend!

Gorgeous quilt! I love the way the quilting intersects at the triangle points! So cool! My favorite wip right now is my AMH Gypsy Wife quilt. I'm hand quilting it and loving every minute of it! Thanks for the chance!

What a fantastic quilt Amanda!!! I love it. I especially love the pop or orange next to the purple solid (my favorite color). It really does mix it up so well and add a great focal interest point. It is just so happy, makes me want to curl under it and Nap like an Egyptian :)

Beautiful colors in this fabric. The days of the week go by so fast for me it’s like they are all one big day.At the moment my favorite color is orange. I see there is no orange in this bundle but I bet they make one.

Love those bright colors! Perfect for spring/summer. My fave WIP is City Lot from City Quilts. It's going to be a present for our best friend's first baby girl! Just needs to be quilted, which I've been putting off for forever.

I really need to start buying solids..they really give a quilt that modern look. Here's an oddball favorite of mine: Spring, when the cows kick up their heels the first time they are out to pasture after being cooped up all winter.

My favorite day of the month is the first Saturday. I belong to a small quilting group and that is the day we get together to sew, talk, laugh and yes, sometimes there is tears. Thanks for the great giveaway.

I recently purchased a few fat quarters that were RJR and I was really impressed with the quality. They have a great feel. It makes me all the more excited for their new venture with Melody Miller et al.

Personally, I love the highly saturated colors you used in this quilt. As for my favorite day of the week...Friday. Specifically, Friday at 6:00 p.m. That's when my husband of 30 years comes home from work and we get to spend some relaxing time together. svonfumetti at yahoo dot com

So I will tell you that my favourite book is Kipling's Kim, my favourite thing to knit is lace, and my favourite quilt recently began to wear out completely. Also, my favourite chocolate is 40% with butterscotch and sea salt.

Favourite colour is blue, and my current favourite WIP is featuring lots of blues at the moment, it's going to be a seaside scene in upcycled wools. I really like how your quilt turned out, design and colours, especially with that orange mixing it up.

It's funny, but I remember a time when orange seemed like a shunned color. Now, I see it frequently, but still less than other colors. I have always loved orange and I use it often in my quilts. I occasionally wear orange clothing and every day I drive my orange SUV.

This quilt is truly stunning. My favorite tip from this post is the addition of orange and how it "stirs the pot". Well said! That's one area I need help with and this color lesson helps a lot. Thanks for showing how you've been picking your fabrics for your quilts! Also, it goes without saying how happy we are that you're back ;-)

I have a couple of favorites, right now it is anything that I have finished and my new sewing room, we finished our basement and moved my room down there and then installed a longarm. I spend my time down there. Love the quilt.

I love the colours orange, lime and purple.....often together!So glad that you are back and refreshed after your month off, I have missed seeing how you manage to turn scraps into wonderful quilts and pillows and of course I've missed 'finish it up friday'.

My favourite WHP is a quilt I am making from a peacock panel. I designed the top myself, including drawing templates for fan blocks. Now I am figuring out how to quilt it. I think I am going to use some metallic thread, then bead the eyes in the peacock's tail. Lots of firsts for me!

These are a few of my favorite things.....Getting together go sew with the girls, my precious kitties, coffee cake from Panera, Houston blend coffee is the smoothest tastiest stuff, a good joke that makes you laugh from down deep in your belly, the fresh smell of lilacs on a beautiful May day....Thank you for sharing such an amazing quilt, Sunday Morning Quilts is truely one of my favorite books I own and I plan to make one of everything from in it!!

Fantastic finish, the AMH and solids look so vibrant! My favourite drink is coffee, I can't get through the day without it!! It always tastes better when someone else makes it for you though doesn't it?!

Right now my favorite thing is playing with quilt designs on CorelDraw! Next favorite is when I can sit down guilt free and "play" with fabric after all my work is at least caught up :) Thanks for all the wonderful ideas!

I love the colors in your quilt! I just returned from a week long trip to friend 's home who moved far away. She just bought a long arm. I took 4 quilts to quilt. We had a ball learning how to use it. I got three quilted and learned a few lessons. But the best part was hanging with fellow quilt lovers.

Hmm... trying to think of one of my favourites that you don't already know about...ha! Spring is my favourite season (not that it's actually arrived here just yet...at some point our snow will finally leave ;o).

What a beautiful quilt! Love all the colors you put in it.I guess my favorite beverage would be a glass of ice water. I always have one sitting beside me or on the kitchen counter. Favorite color would be red. Love red.

A few of my favorite things....anything red....spending the day sewing on a quilt....a Diet Dr. Pepper with Cranberry from Sonic....love to visit anyplace in the Caribeen...and of course my very favorite things...grandkids. Thanks for the chance to win!

I would say that I actually like any color although I have been partial to orange lately. Fall is my favorite time of year, you know when the first smell of crispness is in the air. I have this quilt on my todo list I really enjoy working with the different solids, it's amazing what a difference there is in their textures.

My favorite movie to half watch while I hand bind a quilt is the keira knightley pride and prejudice. I know it well enough I don't have to look up, but I know it well enough that I know just when to look up!

I love red, teal and yellow! They are bright and make me feel happy! I love summer! And I LOVE your quilt! It is stunning! That is going to be my next project! Thank you so much for inspiring me and for your awesome giveaway!

I don't think I could pick a favorite day of the week. There are such great things that happen in all of them. My favorite quilt shop in Duluth is Hannah Johnson and I am excited to see you there in April!

My favorite color is aqua. My favorite beverage is Dr. Pepper but I'm trying to stop. I only have 2 per day otherwise I drink water. And my favorite thing to do is sewing and quilting and also reading about quilting if I'm not able to actually quilt that day. I'm addicted to quilting books and magazines.

What a gorgeous quilt! Love the colors. I am glad you put orange in there, it does shake things up. It is always encouraging to me when you share the lessons you learn along the way. My favorite WIP is my Celtic Solstice top from Bonnie Hunter's mystery. The top is done but the back is still swirling around in my head! Still trying to decide how much work to put into the back. So there it sits smiling at me as I go in our family room which happens to be where my sewing space is. I am so glad you are back blogging. We love your ideas and your willingness to try new things. K-

My favorite color is PURPLE! I have always loved purple. My Mom, bless her heart, let me paint my room purple and even bought purple carpet for my room when I was a kid. However, strangely enough, I hardly ever use it in quilts.

My favorite time of day is first thing in the morning. Before the kids get up (which is tough to do because I have a daughter who is up with the sun!) I love to sit with my coffee in the dimly lit room. I like to read my blogs or watch the news or check my email! Quiet in my house is hard to come by, so I take it when I can!

My favorite WIP is my Gypsy Wife quilt. I am taking a block of the month class at my awesome local quilt shop, Mama Said Sew. Angela is amazing & this is shaping up to be the most perfect thing I've ever made.

I love your Sleep like an Egyptian quilt, always wanted to go there; my mom did! :) My favorite color is yellow, favorite day is Monday, everybody leaves but me.My favorite snack is grapes and Colby/jack cheesepepsi, enough said!I love marmalade, although I haven't purchased any yet.don't have a favorite, love them all. Thank you for the chance to win this fabulous fabric, have a great weekend. :)

Great quilt! I love the prints that you paired with the solids. I'm working on a triangle quilt along with aqua and red but it's going to be really different from yours. My favorite color is any shade of green!

I LOVE YELLOW AND BLUE. BUT LATELY I HAVE BEEN REALLY ATTRACTED TO TURQUISE. I WANT TO TRY THE PATTERN YOU USED THIS FABRIC ON. I AM A FAIRLY NEW QUILTER AND HAVE DONE ONLY BABY QUILTS AND SMALLER SO I THINK A LAP QUILT IS THE LOGICAL NEXT STEP.

Love the quilt! Those colors are so striking! Right now my favorite day of the week is Sunday... everything for the past week has wrapped up, and we can get excited about all the things coming up in the next week. Plus my rancher husband lets us sleep in till 7:30 ( whoot whoot!)

Favorites:Color - Blue...I seem to find a way to use it, in some hue, in all of my quilts and projects. Snack - I love baking up some zucchini. Yumm.My favorite time of day is when I get to sew...sadly it doesn't happen every day. - Katelyn @ Sing While Crafing

Throughout the Winter I have been wearing my new favourite jumper - bright orange. I love it so much I am looking for the same saturated colour for my summer wardrobe.I usually stay clear of solid fabrics, but I love the way you have combined the fantastic bright solids with prints from your stash.

Wow, your quilt is awesome! I didn't know you could go back and quilt some more after it's been washed. Being a newbie, I learn something new everyday. By the way, my fav color is green. :)craftyccain@gmail.com

BEAUTIFUL QUILT!!!My favorite day of the week is Saturday.My favorite color is green!My favorite snack is popcorn or homemade ice cream.My favorite beverage is Chick-fil-a Unsweet Tea with lemon..My favorite fabric line for right now is Sweet as Honey.My favorite WIP is a mini quilt I'm doing for a secret swap!!

Lovely, lovely colours in that bundle! My favorite thing is sitting at my campsite English paper piecing after a day of fishing, hiking or berry picking. Now if all this snow would cooperate and melt. Great quilt and thanks for offering a giveaway.

Today my favorite color is aqua. My favorite day is the weekend cuz I don't have to go to work and can sew but I also like Wednesday cuz I like saying Hump Day...makes me think of that crazy commercial with the Camel walking around the office. Thanks for the chance to win.Shawn

I've always said my favorite color is green. And it is... only EVERY quilt I make uses blue! I mean a really nice aqua. And I just can't get away from it. AND I don't have very much green in my stash at all. So maybe my favorite color is changing. :)

Favorite color, that depends on the mood I am in, the time of the year and a lot of other things. Purple, teal, dark pink, olive, lime, rust,khaki and ............Most - 90% - of my clothes is black.hpr@post9.tele.dk

My favorite color is anything neon, and Friday is definitely my favorite day of the week. I curl up on the couch after work and enjoy looking at everyone's beautiful projects on Finish It Up Friday. March was a tough month for me, I missed you! Welcome back, Amanda Jean, and thanks for the giveaway!

Great quilt! HMMMM...favorites....My favorite person is my husband, favorite color is turquoise blue, favorite fabric---changes from civil war prints to happy prints frequently, favorite movie is The Sound of Music, favorite drink is water (a few sips of coke now and then hit the spot though!) Favorite snack is lays classic potato chips. Favorite type of food is Thai. But I do hope you pick me for the fabric giveaway!!!! Thanks for the chance.

My favorite day of the week is Saturday morning. I love sleeping in (even though my kids get me up way too early!). My favorite WIP is Sunday Morning Quilts quilt, but doing it scappy, not low volume. It's turning out so cute!